The song we used is actually an original recording of a more famous song, Summertime, written by George Gershwin. Our version had slow, almost hypnotic repetition of piano chords, in a 6/8 swing, with a muted trumpet solo in the middle.

We could have just replaced the song with another song if it wasn't for the fact that Lana's character is actually singing the song, so she is lip-synched with the lyrics, and we would have to remove her almost entirely, or re-animate all her parts, in order to change the music.

That said, the song will actually become public domain in the U.S. in 2 years. So maybe it could get released as a DVD extra at somepoint? Who knows.

I wasn't at SDCC when they played it, so I'm not sure what was said, but I would assume that they asked for it to not be recorded, and Comicon probably has their own ushers and staff that would have enforced that as best they could. I'm honestly surprised that a bootleg recording of it hasn't shown up. I'm disappointed in the internet.

We used a song in that trailer that we had exhibition rights for, but not internet publishing rights, which would have been prohibitively expensive, so I'm told. Basically, we could play it in front of an audience, but we can't upload it to the internet.

So, that specific trailer will not likely ever air/be uploaded. But I imagine that another version is being cut together for promotion of this upcoming season. Not sure what sort of timeline there will be though.

I don't think so! But I'm not a writer, so I don't really have any insight to what Adam might have meant by that. I think it's just Cheryl being her typical Carol-self. If what she did was logical than it wouldn't be her.

The show was also written by Adam Reed and made by a few of the people here at Floyd County Productions, however, at the time, the company was called 7030, and was a much much smaller team. I wasn't working here at that time.

The character you described as looking like Archer, Xander Crews, will sound familiar, because he is voiced by Adam Reed, who also does the voice of Gillette.

EDIT: OH! Also, the voice of VAL is Amber Nash, voice of Pam. Though she mostly just yelps and kind of squeeks for the first episode.

I saw this last week, and scanned your profile to see if I immediately recognized you, but that was a bust. My guess is that you are maybe an old Lenox Apple Store peep that I would have met through those kids? Any clues?

This is basically an inside joke to our office, but was too stereotypical of passive aggressive office drama not to be included as set dressing.

Basically, someone at Floyd County once designed that exact "poster" and taped it above our coffee maker. It shows a diagram of how to properly fill up the coffee machine with grounds and if you put too much in it will overflow and get coffee grounds all over the place.

While the note would have been a slightly clever and slightly funny passive aggressive lecture on coffee brewing best practices, it ended up backfiring because it was riddled with typos and poor grammar.

Instead of following the directions, we took it upon ourselves to grade this anonymous co-workers design/note, with several people writing on it with red pens and markers.

If I can hunt it down, I'll post a picture of the actual note. Someone around here has to have it.

I can be a source, and say that yes, Jessica Walter was sick, and even had some surgery around that time, but there was never any press release or news stories about it. Me commenting on Reddit is about as close to official as you're likely to get.

But yes, Adam Reed also reduced the amount of speaking lines she would have during that period, to give her the time she needed to recuperate.

FUN FACT: This is indeed /u/mochibaby 's first post! But she's no stranger to Archer, and you're no stranger to her. She designs characters for our show, and is also responsible for putting herself into the show in the form of "Chi". Which is actually mochibaby's name. She might have a little bit of an ego. Not gonna lie.

Yeah, our office is very much purely functional, and doesn't really have a layout that lends itself to touring anyone around. A few times a year we'll have some students come through, from SCAD or wherever. We do tend to drink and watch the episodes airing at the pub next door to our office (Which I'll leave unnamed, but a clever person should be able to make an educated guess). So I guess if you wanted to hang out and have a beer with some of the staff, we like doing that.

Archer, the show, has been described by it's creator as "Dick jokes for smart people."

The show will simultaneously have characters bicker about petty differences while making reference to George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' or Herman Mellville's 'Bartleby, The Scrivener."

The humor in the show comes from two sides, there is the brash insult humor that you seem to not enjoy, and then the more sophisticated humor, that requires you to have an understanding of literature and pop-culture, both current and very, very, very old.

If you don't like the former, and don't pick up on the latter, than you will mostly likely not enjoy any part of this show.

I have not. But that definitely sounds like something that a beer-centric bartender would do. Egg white in drinks are definitely something probably not covered in bartending 101, that's a 110 class at least.

Not only do you need to shake it, but you need to shake it with either no ice first, and then add ice and continue shaking, OR, you can do what I've learned to do, with is put one or two ice cubes (depending on their size) into the shaker, and then just shake until you can't hear the ice clinking around anymore. In that case, the ice works two-fold. It chills the drink slowly, so the egg doesn't coagulate, and it also adds some heft to the mixture, which seems like it helps to "whip" the eggwhite in the process. I don't know if the science pans out there, but that's how it's done at The Mercury in Ponce City Market, and their whiskey sour and amarretto sours are both fantastic... or would it bit... egg-cellent?! ha ha ha ha

The raptor thing is a joke from the season 1 DVD, not the actual pilot. The season 2 DVD had a follow up "E!: True Hollywood Story" about the raptor developing a drug habit after his failure in the pilot. It's just a joke though. A very very very dedicated joke.

I am in no way weighing in on the validity of this theory, but I will answer that last question: If you remember back to the Heart of Archness three part episode, Archer has previously beat his own personal record for breath holding and sharks shot in the freakin face.

An "official" Poovey Farms logo, thus far, does not exist. Perhaps at some point, if we ever get to see Poovey Farms, that will change, but currently, the best you got would be using the racing logo, and modifying it to subtract the 'race' elements. Basically, what /u/sirkazuo has done in his comment.

Definitely the sour mix! I can get down with whiskey sours all day long. Especially if you put some egg white in there and make a meal out of it!

Sour mix makes me sad. Kill that bottle quick! And then just buy two lemons a week. They're cheap. The peels can go in old fashioneds, the juices has endless possibilities. And if you don't use them, they make for decent compost. Win win win win win!